I always thought the 16 was a pain in the ass. with an M-16, you had "inspection-ready" and "combat-ready". "Inspection-ready" was fully-cleaned, lightly oiled. "Combat-ready" was slathering the firing system with CLP. IMHO, that was what happened with the Jessica Lynch unit, they didn't have their weapons combat-ready. Only one veteran Sergeant had a weapon that consistently fired, and the others jammed- their weapons were "inspection-ready".

However, caring and cleaning an M-16 would require a professionalism normally missing from 3rd world armies. If some retard terrorist stole one, he'd throw it away the first time it jammed-which an M-16 is always looking for an excuse to do.